The community of Latin Arabs is referred to the large population of Arabs living in Latin American countries. Estimates show that around 25-30 million people living in Latin America are with Arab Origin. This figure comprises around 5% of the whole population of the region. Arabs have historically a long root of around two centuries in Latin...

Argentine researcher Adrian Salbuchi explains that this enslavement will include amputation of territory. This is why Israelis are "taking the measure" of Patagonia and provoking attacks from the locals.
In 2002, when Argentina was in the midst of its worst banking, financial and currency collapse that caused [ended]...

It is difficult to speak of ‘vestiges’ of oppression in the allegedly democratic era following the fall of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, as subsequent governments have embarked upon a more refined replication of the ethnocide and displacement characterising Mapuche history.
The Mapuche resistance against Spanish coloni...

An army lieutenant under late Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet will face a civil trial in Florida this month for his involvement in the 1973 murder of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the U.S. human rights group bringing the suit said on Thursday.
Jara, also a poet and political activist, inspired generations of artists from U2 to Bruce Spring...

Protesters refused to take an alternative route suggested by police in central Santiago and hurled stones at them, the government said.
Students said they were brutally attacked by riot police.
They are demanding that the government of Michelle Bachelet speed up reforms that will guarantee free university education for all Chileans.
"We are ti...

Demonstrators set up barricades and hurled firebombs in Valparaiso, where Chile's Congress meets. Police fired tear gas and water cannon.
A security guard died from fume inhalation when masked protestors burned a pharmacy and supermarket.
Chileans are angry because of an economic downturn and a corruption scandal involving Ms Bachelet's family....

Chilean fishermen have staged a protest demanding the government compensate them better after toxic algae blooms killed their catch.
The fishermen blocked roads and set up flaming barricades in several cities in Chile's south Tuesday to pressure President Michelle Bachelet to increase the $150 that they say the government has offered for compens...

Victims of a secretive German colony in Chile hope that Germany's decision to declassify documents will help shine light on human rights abuses committed there.
For three decades beginning in 1961, the enclave of Colonia Dignidad, or Dignity Colony, was the site of torture, slavery and child abuse.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeie...

The remains of the Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda have been reburied, three years after being exhumed to investigate his death.
He died of prostate cancer in 1973, days after a military coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power.
But there have been persistent rumours that he was assassinated.
Last year forensic scienti...

Patricio Aylwin, who has died aged 97, was the first president to be elected in Chile after the 1989 restoration of democratic elections that ended General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.
During his four years in office, he built on the policies which had made Chile one of the most dynamic economies in Latin America under his predec...